How to share medical practice adequately?

This case-study will pursue ethnographic and historical studies to map the shifting boundaries of medical practice.

We study how the recent controversy on physician associates might match on a long history of medical staff taking on doctors’ responsibilities; either to make up for a lack of physicians or in the name of increased efficiency.

Questions we're exploring

How has the role of the physician associate emerged within the historical context of community care and social medicine?

How can we assess, characterise, and clarify the specific form of expertise and voice embodied by a growing category of new medical professionals?

People

Dr Lukas Engelmann

Professor, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Lukas Engelmann is a Professor in the History and Sociology of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His research is concerned with the history of epidemiological reasoning in the twentieth century, for which he established and leads the Epidemy Lab, funded by an ERC Starting Grant.

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